This was my second semester of nursing school. It was the first time that me and my other classmates actually got to care for a patient. My patient was in her late 60’s and had dementia, she was pleasantly confused.

I had to get someone to help me move her from her bed to the chair so she could join the other residents on her floor. So we set her up on the side of the bed and she had these homemade green slippers that we put on her feet. Then once we got her in the chair we put up her feet. She looked down at her feet and she said, “What in the hell are those?” We told her those are your homemade slippers that were a gift to you. And she said, “Well those are the ugliest things I’ve ever seen in my life.” I laughed till I cried, it was the cutest thing.